Provocative opinion piece.

“Rust, and resistance to it in some parts of the Linux community, has been in my feed recently. One undercurrent seems to be the notion that Rust is woke (and should therefore be rejected as part of culture wars).”

We’re going to keep covering this story because, frankly, it’s the only story that matters right now, and one that not everyone manages to see clearly. The political press may not understand what’s happening (or may be too afraid to say it out loud), but those of us who’ve spent decades studying how technology and power interact? We see it and we can’t look away.

Gary Marcus expresses his concerns that current research on AI is no longer focused on building machines that solve problems in ways that have to do with human intelligence. But merely on using massive amounts of data – often derived from human behavior – as a substitute for intelligence.